Holder of Lightning

This adjustment is traditionally made by the Dralodoiri of the Mother-Creator at the Sunstones Ring at Dun Laoghaire, but the Inish Thuaidh Dralodoiri generally use the Sunstones Ring near Dun Kiil to make their own adjustments, which do not always agree with that of Dun Laoghaire. Thus, the reckoning of days in Talamh an Ghlas and Inish Thuaidh is often slightly different.

The year is considered to start on the first day of Longroot, immediately after the Festival of Gheimri and any additional days that have been added to Sweetsap.

There are four Great Festivals at the solstices and

Marks that true winter has been reached and that the slow ascent t warmth of spring has begun. Generally a celebration touched with a soml cause the rest of winter must still be endured.

equinoxes.

Lafuacht:

(in the first week of Straightwood)

Fomhar

(in the second week of Brightflower)

Meitha

(in the third

week of Capnut)

Marks the time to prepare for the spring planting to come and the birthing of animals. This festival was an appeal to the Mother-Creator and the Mi lesser gods) to make the crops grow and the live-stock fertile. A time c prayer.

Marks the height of the growing season. In good years this was the and happy festival, celebrating the plenty all around.

Gheimhri Marks the onset of autumn. This is a date fraught with uncertainty

(in the fourth as the crops are harvested and the colder weather begins. Though t

week of often spreadsover more than one day, it is also laden with solemn r

Sweetsap) ceremonies to placate the gods who awaken with the autumn chill.

The following is a sample year with corresponding Gregorian dates.

However, bear in mind that this is only an approximation and will differ slightly each year.

1st day of Longroot = September 23 (New Year’s Day)

1st day of = October 21

Silverbark

= November 18

= December 16

= 7^th day of Straightwood (December 22)

= January 13

= February 10 = March 10

= 11th day of Brightflower (March 20)

= April 7

= May 5 = June 2

= 19th day of Capnut (June 20) = June 30

1st day of Wideleaf

1st day of Straightwood

Festival of Lafuacht

1st day of Fallinglimb

1st day of Deereye

1st day of Brightflower

Festival of Fomhar:

1st day of Redfruit

1st day of Conefir

1st day of Capnut

Festival of Meitha:

1st day of Stranglevine

1st day of = July 28 Softwood

1st day of = August 25 Sweetsap

Festival of = 28th day of Sweetsap

Gheimhri: (September 21)

History:

Time of Though details and sometimes names vary, similar tales Myth are shared by both the Bunus Muintir and Daoine people, which indicate a common mythological base and possibly a shared tribal ancestry. The following tale is just one of many, and is the primary Daoine Creation Myth. The Mother-Creator had intercourse with the Sky-Father, and gave birth to a son. But their son was sickly and died, and she laid him down in the firmament, and his skeleton became the bones of the land. In time, the Mother-Creator overcame her grief and lay again with the Sky-Father, and gave birth to Seed-Daughter. Seed-Daughter flourished and in time became as beautiful as her mother, and she attracted the attention of a son of the Sky-Father, Cloud. From that triple union came the plants living in the soil that covered her brother, the Earth. Seed-Daughter was also coveted by Darkness, and Darkness stole her away and took her in violence. When Seed-Daughter escaped from Darkness and came back to Cloud and Rain, sorrowing, she was heavy in her womb, and from her time of confinement would come all the Miondia, the Lesser Gods. The Miondia spread out over the lands, and from their couplings emerged the animals in all their varieties. After the rape by Darkness, Seed-Daughter could conceive no more. She wept often, sometimes fiercely, which we see even now in the rain that falls.

Year The first of the Bunus Muintir tribes reach Talamh an -2500 Ghlas, after traversing from Thall Mor-roinn, the (appro mainland, into Ceile Mhor, the larger peninsula to which x.) Talamh an Ghlas is attached. These Bronze Age people created their society in Talamhan Ghlas, which lasted until the arrival of the Daoine tribes in Year 0.

Year The disappearance of the mage-lights for the Bunus

— 75 Muintir people. The mage-lights would not reappear

(appro again until after the arrival of the Daoine and the collapse

x.) of Bunus Muintir society.

Year Death of Bunus Muintir chieftain and cloudmage Riata.

— 70

(appro

x.)

Year o The first of the Daoine tribes enter Talamh an Ghlas,

crossing over the "Finger," the spine of mountainous land connecting Talamh an Ghlas to the peninsula of Ceile Mhor, and also arriving by ship at Inish Thuaidh, on the western coast at Bacathair and in the south at Taghmon. They would encounter and eventually displace (and in-terbreed with) the Bunus Muintir people.

Year The Battle of Lough Dubh, where RB Crenel Dahgnon de-105 feated the last Bunus Muintir chieftain Ruaidhri.